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...Francisco's landmark Ferry Building last week, steeplejack Jody Mancuso eased herself carefully to the tip of a new white flagpole and crowned it with the same gold-painted sphere that was knocked wildly askew on Oct. 17, 1989, by the strongest earthquake to strike the city since 1906. This week the American flag will be hoisted there once again, to mark the anniversary of last year's temblor, which registered 7.1 on the Richter scale, killed 63 people, injured 3,757 others and caused at least $6 billion in damage...
...Pacific Avenue was reduced to rubble. A year later, 50-year-old masonry storefronts are still propped up with braces, but there are no stores behind them. At the Pacific Garden Mall, where three people died, only a handful of stores have reopened in temporary tentlike structures. The landmark St. George Hotel appears to be damaged beyond repair. "The impact here has been terrible," says Santa Cruz Mayor Mardi Wormhoudt, who estimates damage in the city at $155 million...
...Deal. According to scholars such as Alan Brinkley, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Second New Deal" in 1935 was partly the result of growing pressure from the left, including the growing popularity of Huey Long. Described as a "turn to the left," this series of legislative actions included such landmark bills as the "Soak the Rich" tax bill and the Social Security...
Barrie's trial, which began last week, is shaping up as a landmark: the first time an American museum director has faced criminal charges because of work that he chose to display. The case has unnerved museum directors, who have long assumed that their right to show whatever artworks they selected is covered by First Amendment guarantees of free expression. With a battle over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts expected to begin in Congress this week -- a fight that was set off by Mapplethorpe's pictures -- the art world is feeling besieged. "The police coming...
...bachelor from Weare, N.H., keenly senses that he has been chosen by Bush and history to cast perhaps the deciding vote on whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal in all states. He gave scant comfort to either side on that issue, flatly refusing to discuss Roe even in the wake of lengthy grilling by committee chairman Joseph Biden. Though he acknowledged the right of married couples to privacy, he refused to budge further in discussing either privacy or abortion rights. When asked whether he could understand the anguish of a woman facing...